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| Orders and Observations Work Group | Maturity Level: N/A | Standards Status: Informative | Compartments: Device, Patient, Practitioner |
Raw JSON (canonical form + also see JSON Format Specification)
General Specimen Example
{
"resourceType": "Specimen",
"id": "101",
"text": {
"status": "generated",
"div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative</b></p><p><b>id</b>: 101</p><p><b>identifier</b>: id: 23234352356</p><p><b>accessionIdentifier</b>: id: X352356</p><p><b>status</b>: available</p><p><b>type</b>: <span>Venous blood specimen</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a>Peter Patient. Generated Summary: id: example; Medical record number: 12345 (USUAL); active; Peter James Chalmers (OFFICIAL), Jim , Peter James Windsor (MAIDEN); -unknown-(HOME), ph: (03) 5555 6473(WORK), ph: (03) 3410 5613(MOBILE), ph: (03) 5555 8834(OLD); gender: male; birthDate: 1974-12-25; </a></p><p><b>receivedTime</b>: 04/03/2011 6:03:00 PM</p><p><b>request</b>: <a>Generated Summary: id: example; status: completed; intent: order; <span>Diagnostics Procedure</span>; <span>Computed tomography of head</span></a></p><h3>Collections</h3><table><tr><td>-</td><td><b>Collector</b></td><td><b>Collected[x]</b></td><td><b>Quantity</b></td><td><b>Method</b></td><td><b>BodySite</b></td></tr><tr><td>*</td><td><a>Generated Summary: id: example; id: 23; active; Adam Careful </a></td><td>30/05/2011 4:15:00 PM</td><td>6 mL</td><td><span>Line, Venous</span></td><td><span>Right median cubital vein</span></td></tr></table><h3>Containers</h3><table><tr><td>-</td><td><b>Identifier</b></td><td><b>Description</b></td><td><b>Type</b></td><td><b>Capacity</b></td><td><b>SpecimenQuantity</b></td><td><b>Additive[x]</b></td></tr><tr><td>*</td><td>id: 48736-15394-75465</td><td>Green Gel tube</td><td><span>Vacutainer</span></td><td>10 mL</td><td>6 mL</td><td><a> </a><blockquote><p><b>id</b>: hep</p><p><b>code</b>: <span>Lithium/Li Heparin</span></p></blockquote></td></tr></table><p><b>note</b>: Specimen is grossly lipemic</p></div>"
},
"contained": [
{
"resourceType": "Substance",
"id": "hep",
"code": {
"coding": [
{
"system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EntityCode",
"code": "HEPL"
}
]
}
}
],
"identifier": [
{
"system": "http://ehr.acme.org/identifiers/collections",
"value": "23234352356"
}
],
"accessionIdentifier": {
"system": "http://lab.acme.org/specimens/2011",
"value": "X352356"
},
"status": "available",
"type": {
"coding": [
{
"system": "http://snomed.info/sct",
"code": "122555007",
"display": "Venous blood specimen"
}
]
},
"subject": {
"reference": "Patient/example",
"display": "Peter Patient"
},
"receivedTime": "2011-03-04T07:03:00Z",
"request": [
{
"reference": "ServiceRequest/example"
}
],
"collection": {
"collector": {
"reference": "Practitioner/example"
},
"collectedDateTime": "2011-05-30T06:15:00Z",
"quantity": {
"value": 6,
"unit": "mL"
},
"method": {
"coding": [
{
"system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v2-0488",
"code": "LNV"
}
]
},
"bodySite": {
"coding": [
{
"system": "http://snomed.info/sct",
"code": "49852007",
"display": "Structure of median cubital vein (body structure)"
}
],
"text": "Right median cubital vein"
}
},
"container": [
{
"identifier": [
{
"value": "48736-15394-75465"
}
],
"description": "Green Gel tube",
"type": {
"text": "Vacutainer"
},
"capacity": {
"value": 10,
"unit": "mL"
},
"specimenQuantity": {
"value": 6,
"unit": "mL"
},
"additiveReference": {
"reference": "#hep"
}
}
],
"note": [
{
"text": "Specimen is grossly lipemic"
}
]
}
Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.